Sydney Roosters are World Club champions after Manu mauls St Helens
(The Guardian Sports News)

o St Helens 12-20 Sydney Roosterso Joseph Manu takes game away from hosts in second halfSydney Roosters will wake up on Sunday morning and know they were in a battle with the Super League champions, St Helens; but in the end this was a familiar outcome and a brutal lesson in the supreme quality possessed by the NRL´s standard-bearers. Trent Robinson´s side are the first team in World Club Challenge history to defend the title which is no mean feat.But how they were pushed every step of the way by St Helens after a performance in which they enjoyed the greater periods of pressure and possession but could not make their field position count. The Roosters absorbed a huge amount of pressure while leading 8-6 for the entirety of the third quarter and struck when it mattered. Continue reading...